31163 - German Literature 2

Learning outcomes

Upon the successful completion of the course, students will have acquired a satisfactory knowledge of general issues and individual aspects concerning literary history. They will be able to understand and translate texts from the original. They will also have acquired the basic theoretical knowledge necessary for their critical interpretation, being able to comment on texts and apply specific methodologies for the analysis of literary texts.

Course contents

Romantik – Adventures of a category in the ‘long 19^th century’

This course offers an introduction to German Romanticism from the viewpoint of literary anthropology. We are going to focus on pivotal moments such as the experimental phase of its beginnings, usually referred to as Frühromantik. From here we will then be working through the Mittlere Romantik ending with the discussion of some examples belonging to Spätromantik. In the final part of the course, we will go on to explore the notion of Neuromantik by way of close reading of a couple of texts from the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century. Special attention is to be paid to the poetics of fragment and literary genres as well as to a set of places—both real and imaginary—where Romantic literature acquires an unusual intensity to which critics sometimes allude when using the adjective erzromantisch.

 

 

Readings/Bibliography

Literary Sources

Please see below ('Assessment methods') for further notice.

 

• Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder / Ludwig Tieck, Herzensergießungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders / Effusioni di cuore di un monaco amante dell’arte. In: W. H. Wackenroder, Opere e lettere. Scritti di arte, estetica e morale in collaborazione con Ludwig Tieck, a cura di Elena Agazzi. Traduzioni, apparati critici e note di Elena Agazzi, Federica La Manna e Andrea Benedetti. Testo tedesco a fronte, Milano, Bompiani, 2014, pp. 71-328.

• Friedrich Schlegel, »Athenaeum«-Fragmente und andere frühromantische Schriften, Edition, Kommentar und Nachwort von Johannes Endres, Stuttgart, Reclam, 2018; trad. it. Athenaeum 1798-1800. Tutti i fascicoli della rivista di August Wilhelm Schlegel e Friedrich Schlegel, a cura di Giorgio Cusatelli, traduzione, note e apparato critico di Elena Agazzi e Donatella Mazza, Milano, Bompiani, 2009 [only the Fragments of the second issue].

• Friedrich Schlegel, Lucinde. Studienausgabe, hrsg. von Stefan Knödler, Stuttgart, Reclam, 2020; trad. it. di Maria Enrica D’Agostini, Lucinde, Pordenone, Studio Tesi, 1985.

• Clemens Brentano, Rheinmärchen, Berlin, Europäischer Literaturverlag, 2013; trad. it. di Laura Bocci, Camilla Miglio e Melania Traini, Fiaba del Reno, a cura di Camilla Miglio e Laura Bocci, note al testo a cura di Monica Lumachi, Roma, Donzelli, 2008.

• Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Der Sandmann / L’uomo della sabbia, a cura di Ginevra Quadrio Curzio, testo tedesco a fronte, Milano, La vita felice, 2018.

• Joseph von Eichendorff, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts / Vita di un perdigiorno, a cura di Giulio Schiavoni, trad. di Lydia Magliano, testo tedesco a fronte, Milano, Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 1976 (o successive ristampe).

• Bettine von Arnim, Die Günderode, hrsg. von Walter Schmitz, Frankfurt am Main, Deutscher Klassiker Verlag [Taschenbuchausgabe], 2006; trad. it. di Ornella Sideri Cameli, Günderode, a cura di Vanda Perretta, Roma, Bulzoni, 1983.

• Heinrich Mann, Das Wunderbare und andere Novellen, Berlin, Edition Holbach-epubli, 2021; trad. it. a cura di Elena Giobbio Crea, Il meraviglioso e altri racconti, Milano, Mondadori, 1981.

• Carl Einstein, Bebuquin, a cura di Ginevra Quadrio Curzio, testo tedesco a fronte, Milano, La vita felice, 2021.

This list is open and in progress 

 

Critical Readings

 

• Michele Cometa, Dizionario degli studi culturali, a cura di Roberta Coglitore e Federica Mazzara, Roma, Meltemi, 2004, pp. 72-78 (‘Antropologia letteraria’ di Renata Gambino).

• Francesco Fiorentino e Giovanni Sampaolo (a cura di), Atlante della letteratura tedesca, Macerata, Quodlibet, 2009, p. 19-30, 35-45 and 73-104
  
  

On crucial issues of periodization and literary history:

• Luca Crescenzi, Letteratura tedesca: secoli ed epoche, Roma, Carocci, 2005.
  
  
• Emilia Fiandra, «Il Romanticismo», in Marino Freschi (dir.), Storia della civiltà letteraria tedesca, vol. I: Dalle origini all'età classico-romantica, Torino, UTET, 1998, p. 437-506.
  
  
• Francesco Rossi, L'età romantica. Letteratura tedesca tra Rivoluzione e Restaurazione, Roma, Carocci, 2023, p. 73-207, 283-315 and 372-384.
  
  
• Moira Paleari, «Il Romanticismo», in Chiara M. Buglioni, Marco Castellari, Alessandra Goggio, Moira Paleari, Letteratura tedesca. Epoche, generi, intersezioni. Dal Medioevo al primo Novecento, Firenze, Le Monnier Università, 2019, p. 235-292.

Teaching methods

The course includes lectures and seminars in Italian and German. Students are encouraged to participate actively in the discussions.

Course contents and exam mode of completion are the same for students who do not follow lessons, are on Erasmus exchange etc. They are furthermore advised to contact the teacher (guglielmo.gabbiadini@unibo.it) for mentoring service and further indications about exam preparation.

Assessment methods

Oral exam – open questions aimed at assessing:

• the acquisition of the contents presented in class;
  
• the knowledge of at least two of the primary sources listed above that each student is expected to read in full length (in German);
• the development of critical thinking skills.

Final grading on a 30-point scale (0-17=fail).

Teaching tools

Visual aids and recruitment materials.

Office hours

See the website of Guglielmo Gabbiadini